1st Edition

The Analysis of Political Behaviour

By Harold D. Lasswell Copyright 1947
    324 Pages
    by Routledge

    324 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is Volume III of eighteen in collection on Political Sociology. Originally published in 1948, this is an empirical approach to the analysis of political behaviour. The present volume contains a selection of Prof. Lasswell's articles and papers on politics— the science and the art of management —written from the point of view of a man deeply[1]intent on making Democracy a working institution. It covers international political experiments and experiences of person-to-person relationships, morals, religion and quasi-religious movements; techniques of public opinion are scrutinized as well as the workings of the mind and the subconscious.

    Democracy II. Psychology looks at Morals and Politics III. Legal Education and Public Policy: Professional Training in the Public Interest (with Myres S. McDougal, Professor of Law, Yale Law School) IV. Policy and the Intelligence Function: Ideological Intelligence II. How TO ANALYSE POLITICS A. POLITICAL ÉLITES Chapter I. Skill Politics and Skill Revolution II. The Garrison State and Specialists on Violence III. The Changing Italian Élite. IV. The Rise of the Propagandist B. POLITICAL ATTITUDES Chapter I. The Triple-Appeal Principle: A Dynamic Key II. General Framework: Person, Personality, Group, Culture III. The Psychology of Hitlerism as a Response of the Lower Middle Classes to Continuing Insecurity IV. Radio as an Instrument of Reducing Personal Insecurity III. How TO OBSERVE AND RECORD POLITICS Chapter I. The Participant-Observer: Studies of Administrative Rules in Action II. Self-Observation: Recording the Focus of Attention III. The Prolonged Insight Interview of Freud IV. The World Attention Survey

    Biography

    Harold D. Lasswell